Recent content by Strit

Hi everyone, I'm looking for advice and reassurance that I've done the right thing. I'm new to beekeeping having got my first hive last August. This year I had planned on expanding the number of colonies so got 2 nucs. I did an inspection yesterday and noticed numerous capped swarm cells, so I...

Thanks for all the feedback. When I got this first colony the guy drilled into me the mnemonic "Will You Rear Good Bees" and thought I'd be doing wrong to deviate from that advice. Good to know what everyone else does. I think I'll just stick with a single colour to easily find the queen and if...

Hi, I got my first hive last year and so far has gone perfectly surviving the winter. I want to rear a couple of new queens to increase the number of hives I have. For this I was going to get a marking pen, so red for this year, but was wondering if it's just worth buying a set of five. Will I...

Hi everyone, thanks for the feedback, this will be really useful, especially as I'll soon be buying a second of the same hive and will get weights of all the bare component parts. As far as feeding invert goes, I see this is just a case of adding 1g of citric acid per kilo of sugar, but is this...

Hi everyone, I'm going into my first winter with one hive and due to my limited experience with hefting I decided to put a couple screws in and weigh with luggage scales. I got an overall weight of 24.5kg, but do have a heavier than average roof as it's gabled. Do you think I'm slightly...